linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol.c: move mem_cgroup_id_get_many under CONFIG

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Date:   Tue, 17 Dec 2019 16:19:31 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Chris Down <chris@...isdown.name>
Cc:     Qian Cai <cai@....pw>,
        Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@...esas.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol.c: move mem_cgroup_id_get_many under
 CONFIG_MMU

On Tue 17-12-19 15:09:21, Chris Down wrote:
[...]
> (Side note: I'm moderately baffled that a tightly scoped __maybe_unused is
> considered sinister but somehow disabling -Wunused-function is on the table
> :-))

Well, I usually do not like to see __maybe_unused because that is prone
to bit-rot and loses its usefulness. Looking into the recent git logs
most -Wunused-function led to the code removal (which is really good
but the compiler is likely to do that already so the overall impact is
not that large) or more ifdefery. I do not really see many instance of
__maybe_unused.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs